Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 December 1877 — Page 2

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RANDE!

Hi* Safe Arrival at the Galesburg, 111., Jail.

Less Excitement There Than was Expected.

The Ktifliaii's Chances -or a Swing Very Good.

He Promises to Return to St. Louisand Kill Officer HeflFerman, if he Ever Regains j,: His Liberty. 5f~.

Be is Discovered to Have Been an Inmate of the Northern Indiana

Prison,

Under the Namfe of Van Zandt —Wnat is Known of Him

+'n-

an There.

He Hakes Loud Protests of Mis..^treatment, and Rants Like a Ruffian.

(We present below a man of news concerning Rande, the St. Elmo murdeter. The account we herewith iblish is a history of his trip from St.* mis to Galesburg, and his reception there, together with the precautions taken to keep him from being lynched. There is also evidence showing that he was incarcerated in the Northern Indiana prison under the name or" Vfin Zandt Indeed he confirms this in a letter which for bravado, would be hard to beat. The great curiosity expressed to see his picture, and our inability to supply the demands for the

GAZFTTE

of last Monday

'n which it was presented, induces us to repeat it to-rday. It was taken by an artist for the St. Louis Evening Dispatch, and is said to be a faithful likeness. The breast i* exposed, showing one of the wounds he received in the pawnshop in St. Louis when lie was arrested. He will certainly be hanged, and possibly before long, by the people acting above the law.—ED.

GAZETTE.)

FIRST DISPATCH,

Special to tho St, Louis Evening Dispatch. Monmouth, 111.

Vclock a. m.—Rande

arrived at Monmouth this morning at

6:30

o'clock a. m., after a comparatively tame trip from St. Louis. Nothing happened worthy of note during the journey, Rande continuing throughout as gay as a lark, keeping up an incessant clatter with his tongue, It was not a case of WHISTLING TO KEEP UP HIS COURAGE, but his unceasing proclivity to preserve the reputation he thinks he established in St. Louis jor bravery. He spoke uncon cernedly of his prospects of lynching, saying 'LET THEM LYNCH AND BE D—D.'

He hoped that, if a mob should take possession of him, he would be allowed to straighten that matter about the raping of the girls at Watseka, III., which he contends was dotted down in his memorandum without giving the details. He said on this subject that a 1 BROTHER CONVICT NAMED SCHWARTZ had confessed the deed and he had made a note of the tact for future reference. Rande*fc conversation while enroute was principally confined to matters already so extensively published. He declared hisintention of

KILLING OFFICER H&FFKRNAN, should he be acquitted at his trial. On arriving at Monmouth, Rande was startled at the*sight of a brass band which was waiting for the train to take it to Juliet The desperado evidently thought the band had turned out to leadon the mob with the stirring strains of HANG FRANK RAND TO A SOUR APPLE *19 TREE, ',s He did not weaken, however, and maintains r.is grit better than was expected by any of the officers in attendance.

At Monmouth, the Peoria officers of the law were joined by Sheriff Bergren, of Knox County. Bergren says he Has

NO FEARS CF MOB LAW

.SltlSllI

change of venue otherwise he will no1 be responsible, as the least trifling with the demands of the Knox County people will incite them to immediate riot, and the BLOOD OF BELDEN WILL BE SUMMARILY

AVENGED.

A number of people are flocking into Monmouth. The train will be aelayed here an hour. H.

SECOND DISPATCH.

Special to tho St. Louis Evening Dispatch. Galesburg, 111.. Nov. 2S.—Rande was placed in the Knox county jail at

THE JAIL WAS BESIEGED

by the curious seekers from city and country, ^nxious to see the outlaw whose tame ha.I co ne in advance of him.

Dispatch representative, who came up witli the excursion, has taken a view of the situation as it stands, and sees nothing to stand in the way of Rande getiin^ a tair trial. An intervie with several prominent citizens, as well as man\ of the rougher class which might be disposed to take matters in their own hands, has resulted mainly in the conclusion that, as Rande is surely guilty ot the murder of Chas. Belden of Gilson, the law will take the wo out of the hands of the mob. Should there be an attempt at change of venue, or even an encouragement of the law's delay.

LYNCH LAW

would be resorted to. Either way, the fates are strongly against the baggart, and to the Dispatch representative he admitted tha he was in a bad box, with little hope of ever being able to avenge the wrongs which, he claims, Officer Hefferman heaped upon him after he had surrendered in the pawnshop fight, ps

OTHERS IDENTIFY RANDE. C. H. Parkins, who had a good view of the murderer, pronounces Rande the man who killed Belden.

J. Pickrell, who was shot below the knee by the same man that killed Bel den, says he saw the man that shot him five different times in the chase, each time having a fair view. He unmistakbly identified Rande as the Gilson murderer.

Jos, Cramer, one of the party that started the Gilson tramp from his lair in the woods, and had a good sight at him fifty feet distant, also declares Rande is the man.

The outlaw admits that he was in the vicinity of Gilson at the time of the murder, and does not even dny that he killed Belden, but invariably says when questioned, 'I never shot any one in my life except in self-defense.'

His latent cogitation on his own case has resulted in a determination to have his photograph takerf and sold for his own benefit, the proceeds to go to secure the services of 3ob Ingersoll to defend him. He has no assurance as yet that Ingersoll wiU act as counsel.

Rande's identity is ascertained to a tolerable degree of certainty. A letter from A. C. Hall, deputy of the northern Indiana Penitentiary, to Sheriff Bergen, received this morning, 6ays that Rande is surely Charles A. Vanzandt, sent from Allen county for fi/e years, from September 13,

1872,

2, 1S77.

in case speedy trial is promised, with no

2:3010

9:40

this morning. His reception here was not as warm as was at first anticipated by the excutsion partv accompanying him from St. Louis, About three hun dred people were in waiting at the depot, but tnere was

LITTLE DEMONSTRATION,

and no signs of a mob, those desiring to see him bei moved more by curiosity than any desire to do the ruffian injury. From the depot Rande was escorted to the jail by Detective Hennessey and Chief of Police Kimsey, followed by the members of a strong guard, supported by the memb rs of the St. Louis press on foot. To avoid any trouble, on reaching Galesburg, Kimsey was

HANDCUFFED TO RANDE,

the key being kept in secret possession of »ome one of the guarding partv. This scheme was adopted as the best measure of harmless resistance, should the guard find a mob too powerful to be repelled bv violence on the |,art of the officers of the law It would be a difficult job for the mob. should there be one, to hang Rande while chained to Kimsey. These precautions proved unnecessar}'. One reason fiat Ran ie was not more cordially received by the citizens of Knox county is attributed to the good management of the officers. The

KUMOR HAD PKEVAILE0

that Rande was brought here Sunday night and had been secreted in t,he city. It was not till the Sheriff's party reached Monmouth that it was known here, ex ci-pt b* a v«.-rv few, that the desperado would be brought in this morning The new- of his arrival spread rapidly through the cit and

and discharged on May

Hall in his letter says Rande

fills the description of Vanzandt to a dot He is described by Hall as being much on the shoot ard the write. He told Hall, on his release, that he intended to kill two men who assisted in convicting him, a specimen of Vanzandt's poems !n his own handwriting was enclosed in Hall's letter, which proved beyond a doubt that Rande is the ex-Indiana convict The letter does not state the charge he was convicted of.

Mrs. Clark, the lady who ted a tramp within a miie of the site ot the Belden murder on the morning of the day of the tragedy, has positively identified him

THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

not only as to face but voice. Rande is not so chirpy as he was. THE GRAND JURTV' ha* found two true bitts against Rande. one for th- murdor of Charles Belden, of GiUon, and another tor burglary of the Gilson gunsmith.

day, Sheriff Benson and the

Dispatch representative repaired to Rande's cell to see* what he had to say concerning the Indiana penitentiary.

Well, Rande. we've found out this much abotjlt ydflfc ^jfn't you tell the rest? I will what had never been published yet 1 am the man who was known as Charles Vanzandt in the InJiana psni tentiary.

He then proceeded to relate how he come to be punished sufficiently to aggravate the poem published in the Dispatch of Friday, which, he Paid, referred to the manner ot punishment for an infraction of penitentiary discipline. This punishment (forty lashes on his bate back, drawing blood at each stroke, carrying a ball and chain 101 129 days, and starved nine days) was visited upon him for plannir.g a revolt, which he nearly led to a successiul culmination, but was frustrated by a guard who 'accidentally discovered a letter implicating Rande and four other convic:s in the insurrection. On being shown the letter ot the guard, Rande says he picked up a chair post and felled the guard to the floor, his brought on him tht anger of the management, and he swore he would get even as soon as he £Ot out. It was his firm intention to kill Chas. A. Manning, of Indianapolis and he would have car ried out his plans last summer but for the trouble with the Indianapolis policeman.

He also confessed that he would have killed Hall, the warden, who gave him away in his letter to Begren also, DennyLyons and John Jerroll, now guards in that penitentiary.

His plans, he «aid, for the slaughter of all these men were complete, and another year would have found them in their graves but for his present arrest.

No progress will be made in, the .trial, of Rande before Monday* fe 1' HE ACKNOWLEDGES HIS IDENTITY WITH

THE EX-CON VICT VAN ZANDT, AND VFCNTS HIS SPLEEN

WARDEN^

WAYNE AND OTHERS. To the Editor of the Chicago Tr bunrf: Sir—Your reporter aesires me to sketch some facts for him. In regard to the doings of .he prison officials in the Northern Indiana State Prison while 1 was imprisoned there, and since they have sent a letter to the authorities uere telling them thev recognize me by the circumstances related in the rhyme, called poetry by some, which was published as my production. Now I have been surprised that men called and calling themselves smart detectives had not identified me with that man, Charles A. Van Zandt, in the N. I. S. Prison sooner ihan they have done, but, since they have '0 sift my antecedents, they can look out for the consequences. When I was a prisoner there I was treated in the most inhuman manner, and it was well related in the verses that, for

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days, I carried a ball and chain. I was insulted and ill-treated by contemptible puppies who were in brief authority there, until I became 60 aggravated that I tried to raise a mutiny, but some d—d villain betrayed me, and I A as condemned to ignominous punishment. But mv spirit was not cowed by what I was compelled to undergo in mv routine life. I was so ignominouslj treated by several guard* that I dete miued on trying 'to get some arms and ammunition into tne pristfr. to fon:e the prison open and let all the prisoners out— but, when I say all. allow me to 8 ly that thereare^i lewd scoundrels among the prisoners for whom I entertain the uttermost contempt and hate The reason tor my ill feeling is that some of them assisted the guards to overpower me when I tried to do something for the benefit of all the prisoners. After I ha the ball and chain put on me I was com pelted to walk in iiue with a lame foot, and a heavy iron shackle

011

Respectfully yours,

Having

FRANK RANDE,

ANOTHER STATEMENT.

In addition to this he furnished the sheriff with a statement, in which the same points and others treating of his prison life are set forth. The document reads as follows To the rtiblic:

been asked by the Knox coun

ty sheriff whether I was Van Zandt in the Northern Indiana State Prison, and if I did not go into that hell in the year 1872, etc., and seeing that he had got certain information of some of my ante cedents, I frankly told him I sate that it would be known even should I try to conceal those facts, and so I told hun it 'was true* I had said I disbelieved in the existence of a hell bat I retract that and say there is one called the N. I. S. Prison, and the dirty villain called Charles

Mayne is boss devil, and the d—d dirtv villain called Amos W. Hall is his satanic majesty's first lieutenan. The way they received the news ere by a letter, and in the letter

the request is made not to aliow it to be known where they recieved the information. The reason for that is very clear to m?, as they know of a conspiracy between the devil of that hell and some of his guards to defraud the contractors, Ford, Johnson & Co.. out of iqnmense sums, in which they succeeded, toy, as well in swindling the poor devils of convicts out of the pittances made by overwork. I caught a guard at the little job of for gery, which was no doubt but ont instance in lour or five thousand petty forgeries, and he knows I caught him at it, and I can prove it besides and I desire it to be known that I will do what I can to get them incased in striped clothes, too, instead of walking around on dress parade, when they are without doubt some of the d—dest vil ains unhung. I would not have a'lofeed my identify witn ihe name of Charles A. Van Zandt to be known, but now that th have thrown down the gauntlet, I accept the challenge, and will give them the benefit of an exposure of their low-lived villainy in cheating the poor men in that place out of many small sums bv means of almost innumerable forgeries, of which I gained positive knowlege of six or sev^n different ones. When I was discharged they took my memoranda from me, and kept some of my other paoers, too, but I have (some otiier papers that they did not co fi-cate, but which I smuggled out of the prison, and they passed all right under their noses, and the d—d fools could not tell how it was done. I have a long history to write of them, and shall do so as soon as my wounds will all ire to exert mvselfsufficiently. I have no more paper at present, but will do the subject justice in a short time. -.j

Yours, respectfully, ....... FR^NK RAND,.,.

'•AVJ HStft Uf-

GRANDE IS VAN A NDT. it v.. ft HIS PENITENTIARY TERM AND HIS

THIRST FOR SHERIFF BLOOD. Peoria, lil., Nov. 29.—Sheriff

Hitch

cock to-day received the following letter from J. Winterbotham, who has charge ot the cooperage departmeet of the Northern Indiana Prison at Michigan City. The description given of Charles A. Van Zandt is identically tjie same in every particular as that of Rande. Hitchcock has in his possession a few leaves from the diary kept by Rande while confined in the same prison during the years 1875 and 1876—but

Hitchcock always

thought it was the Jackson (Mich.) Penitentiary, from the names given in the diary. He is so thoroughly satisfied that Van Zandt and Rande are the sanrm person that he has written to the Indiana officers for all the particulars they can furnish. The night Rande was taken from St. Louis to Galesburg, while talking about shooting, killing, etc., he suddenly said: 'I have always said I would never kill a man except in self-defenae, but, mv God, there is one man I want to kill. He is a sheriff, and I have been after him for six months. I stood within twenty feet of him once, but his back was turned toward me, and I will never kill a man without giving him a show and besides, I only had one cartridge in my revolver. When I cotne across him I will thiow back my cap, say LJoyou know me?'and as he recognizes me and reaches for his t*un, I will let the son of a have it through the heart.' In view of the facts contained in the subjoined letter, it is very probable that the officer he was after was th« sheriff of Allen County, Indiana, who was no doubt instrumental in sending him to the Michigan City prison.

Michigan City, Ind., Nov.

.ny ankle,

and an ox chain long enough to reach over my shoulders, ami attached to a raund shot tix inches in diameter. I guess at the weight as ubaut sixtv pounds. I had some business to attend to at the guard's box one day s-hortlv after I had put it on, and the airty old villain, Charles Mayne, the warden, came into the shop and stood near where I had to go, and I did not observe him until 1 was half way to the place intended to go. There was another man with him, and he did not see me until I came up very close to him, wnen he heard the chain rattle a little, when he suddenly sprang five or six feet, as though he had caught sight of a rattlesnake at his feet. I said he was a d—d coward, although he was a Hoosier colonel, and I would give ten years of my life to get a tair chance of getting even with him, and the other villains who treated me so inhumanly while in their power, and helpless to' retaliate. I feel that sudden death is a punishment to which they are not entitled unless there is an orthodox hell, and as I do not believe in the doctrine, I feel it the safest and surest way to give them hell here on earth. The parties who treated me the worst are Charles Mayne, warden Charle's A. Manning, deputy warden, now marshal at the Union Depot at Indianapolis Amos F. Hall, th$ second deputy warden^ John Jerroll, a d—d lousy, lying guard Denny Lyon, the little crazy coward, whose wife eloped with a diocharged convict and some others whom I will name at some future time. The reason why I resolved never to be taken except I should be shot and helpless was that I would rather be killed than to be under the control of such d—d cowardly villains.

1872.

25.

In 1770

26,

IS77.—

Sheriff Hitchcock, Peoria, 111.—Dear Sir: The officers and contractors of this prison feel confident that your man Rande is no other than Charles A. Van Zandt, who served a term of five years here, a description of whom I herewith inclose The poetry published confirms this opinion, as the circumstances alluded to are known to have occured here. If you are satisfied the men are identical, I may be able to furnish further informa tion which will she«[ some light upon his previous history. Chas. A. Van Zandt was received at the Northern Indiana Pr son, Michigan City, Ind., Sept.

13,

from Fort Wayne, Indiana, under a five years' sentence for grand larceny. The following is his personal description at that time, taken from the prison books: Age,

height, five feet five and one-

half inches, complexion dark, eyes black, hair black, born in Delaware, marr ed, scar on &ick of l«lt spine caused by burn, scar on left ide of nose about two inches iong, nose has appearance of being broken on the bridge, two molars out of upper jaw, three out of lower iaw. He was discharged from the Northern Indiana prison May 3,

1S77.

fully yours,

Respect

J. H.

WINTERBOTHAM.

RANDE PLEADS NOT GUILTY. Associated Press Dispatch. Galesburg, III., Nov.

30.—The

outlaw

Rande pleaded not guilty in court to-day, and his case was set for trial December 11.

The late Marquis of Ailesburv being at th» corporation dinner of the borough 01 that name, the Mayor presented to him his son, a likely lad of 10, of whom Lord Ailesbury inquired as to his studies, and learnt that he was 'in Sallust.' The Mayor, proud ot his boy, then pointed to the escutcheon of the house of Ailesbury, hanging in the hall, and told the littie fellow to translate the motto Fuimus (alluding to the tradition of their descent from the King of the East Angles, or some such potentate), but, as ill luck would haye it, the motto was printed half in one corner and half in the other of the escutcheon. So the young scholar translated 'Fui. I have been mas, a mouse.' In fact, he made a uiuss of it.

This is the way the President goes to church under the eyes of the correspondent of the Hartford (Conn.) Times: 'First comes Mr. Hayes, big, blonde and ruddy, and as he waves the ladies ot the party into the pew, we notice what beautifully fitting gray kid gloves he wears Then there is Mrs. Hayes, thorough! well dressed in the richest of black silk (and we hear a lady, who had evidently expectedsomeAngoutre,whisper .'Why. her bonnet isrfas fashionable .as any one's!') and lasAy, the President's niece who, being a dark brunette, is becomingly attired in brocaded silk, of which the prevailing color is crimson.'

the king of Portugal Issued an

edict forbidding widows of above fifty to marry. 'Because experience has shown that women of that age commonly marry young men of no property, who dissipate their fortunes to the prejudice of the chiluren and other near relations of their

MUTATIONS OF MODERN RELIEF. I New York World. I

Nine years of age—An attentive Sunday school scholar. 'Ten—Had committed to "memory a.

000

versus of scripture.

Eleven—Joins a church.

Twelve—Model boy. Thirteen—Sent away to boarding school

Fourteen—Not 60 model learns to smoke Eighteen—Begins to be 'liberal.'

Twenty—More liberal.

Twenty-one—Slightly skeptical as to the Bible. Twtnty-two—Doubts Noah's flooJ Joshua's sun and Jonah's whale.

Twenty-three—Renews Bible bel-'ef and becomes Episcopal L-w church. Twenty four-Becomes Episcopal High church and drink* lager. wenty-six—Joins a scientific debating societv and becomes a close student of geology.

Twenty-se- en—Orthodox religious be lief quite wrecked on the 'testimony of rocks.'

Twenty eight—Becoitl&^lf" Unitarian. Twenty-r.ine—Becomcs a Universalis!.

Thirty— Attends a course of secret narlor lectures. Very radical on all subjects. Starts a community of congenial spi- its who quarrel, bark, bite and scratch at each other like cats and do^s, after six weeks communion, leaves. Lawsuit and scandal.

Thirty-one—Throws the whole Bible overboard and laughs it to scorn. Is enragged at the least mention of Moses, Aaron and the Apostles. Slandere Abraham, David anu Solomon. Very proud of speaking out and announceing his 'principles' in public. Declares his scorn of people who dare not.

Thirty two—Is turned, neck and crop, out of the Universalist church. Falls through everlasting moral space to nowhere. Begins to think it does not pay to speak out RO openlv in meeting.

Thirty-three—Becomes a secret rapping, tipping spiritualist. Thirty-four—Becomes a piano lifting, flower growing, invisible voiced and body lifting spiritualist, and hunts Kidd's money under spirit direction.

Thirty-five—becomes an apparitional materiaizing spiritualist. Communes with Captian Kidd and Shakespeare.

Thirty-six—Detects a fraud. Renounces spiritualism. Thirty-seven—Joins the liberal club and combats everything.

Thirty eight —Leaves the liberal club and becomes a theo-ophist. Grants premium to ancient wisdom and communes with the 'eiementarie8.'

Thirty-nine—Believes in total anni ilation for a year, and determines to get aU the fun possible out of this life.

Forty—vVrites a book on "Pure Nothingism.' Forty-one—Renouncesnothingwm and joins the scientists. Worships mathematically and praises in rhomboids, cubes, triangles and chemical formulas Reduces emotion and sentiment to vegetable and mineral constituents.

Fortv-two—Reads Darwin and cyphers his geneology down to a calm. Fortv-three—Shakes off Darwin. Takes to Swedenborgianism for a rest. Adver Ues for some new faith.

Fortv-iour—Thinks of joining the Catholic church. N jtthat he can believe anything at present, but the church, as He remarks, will "save him the trouble of thinking.' Temporary finis.

THE DEATH PENALTY. ,f

A LIKELIHOOD THAT IT WILL BE RESTORED IN IOWA. Dcs Moino9 Special to St. Louis Globe-

Democrat.

One of the important measures which wi'l come before the Legislature this winter will be the question of restoring the law of capital punishment, which was abolished several years ago under undue influence created by Marion Bovee, who, taking advantage of '.he case of Stanley, convicted of a brutal and cold blooded murder in Storey county, harrangned the Legislature day and night, and so worked upon their sympathies as to' procure the repeal of the law on the day he was te swing and his respite was carried to him at the very hour he was to hang, and after tne rope was prepared for his neck. From that day to this the increase of murder has been terrible, which, with the grosdeftcts in the criminal laws of the Slates whereby conviction for the crime is near, ly impossible, has so aroused public sentiment that a restoration of the law for hanging seems to be inevitable. It has come to pass that life is safe nowhere, and defenseless women at home alone, are constantly exposed to murderous attacks by vagabonds, who, without fear of law, seek to secure a little money, as ill the case reported from Warren county, where, in the absence of a farmer from home, three masked men went to his house to get his money, and shot and killed his daughter while she was defending her home. So frequent have these events become, the people have become a law unto themselves, and a convenient lamp post or tree is sought to avenge an outraged community. Imprisonment seems to have had no effect on murderers, whatever but blood for blood, swift, sure and certain, terrorizes them at once. As an instance, Bev. Graves, now serving a term in the penitentiary for arson, confesses the mu«ler of Mrs. Ella Barrett in this city, three years ago, and is now here on trial for the crime with three confederates. He was in jail cl-arged with arson and suspected of the murder, when Howard, the mu^d?was taken out by vigilantes and to a street lamp post. Graves expected he would be called for next, and was terribly frightened, and begged the jailer to get him out

reach

of the mob. And when he was taken to the penitentiary his only request was that the vigilantes should not be permitted to get hold of him. Let murderers be assured that under the laws their crimes will be as surely ivengcd by taking their live* as when in f.d! imo the hands

vigilant*, awd there will be less murder.

Cromwell came to griet when he tried •tooling' a drag in Hyde Park, and in

1803

Napoleon met a similar fate in the park at at. Cloud, being pitched off a phaeton when drivrhg four horses. When he came to himself he sagaciously remarked that it was best for people to confine themselves to theii own occupations.

The marriage license fee in Tennessee has been reduced to fifty cents. Now, don't everybody go at once!

THE

musical contest on the

13th

12th

:s an assured success.

and

VEGETINE

WILL CURB RHEUMATISM".

Xr. Albert Cr00V«r, the well dmfgist and apothooa-y, of Hprinrraln, Mo., *'w*ys alvise* everv one trouble! with rheumatism, to take Vegetin v.

Read His Statement.

SPKINOVAL*, Mir.,

Oct. M, 1870.

MR. W. H. ^TRVBXS: Dear ^ir—Fiftoen rears a*o lavt *111 \r\a t*k-?n «icK with rheumatism WMira%hlo te move until the next \»ri Pr»t» timeuntil th^ee years ano ••'is fall, I•offered everything wi'h r'ipnmat sm. Sometimes ther« would be woeks at t«me tfeat I *«uld nor step ones ep these attiekfl wrr? quite often. I suffered everything that a min fonM. Over three ^cars ago *a«t s^rinir I oontim«n"-i| t*ki gV'^Mnnand 'ollo ved it up until I had t»kon S"ven bottles hare *iat no rheumati«m «in that time I a wtys adv'-te vry one wh' is troubled with rheumatism to Tv Vegetine. and not snff- for year«asl havo cfne. This sttto'ient ia gratulto8 as far as Mr. Stevens Is cou-ern-ed. Yours, etc.

ALBERT Clt'lOKER,

Firm of A. Cnoker ft 'Jo uggtats.

Vegetine

Has Entirely Cnrel Mv

BO 'TON, Oct. 85, 1S77.

Ma. H. R. STKVEVS: ar Sir—Vlv daughter, aft*r hiv'nr.a severest''ek'T inarcough, loft, in a fe bio state "1 al' h_ TJ l-.g adv bv a tr ea-i, she tried Veget!n •, aid i'f"or ttMnira few hnMI -8, was fullv res ''red to

Hl.h. Ihavebicna greit mfferer rum Rheumatism 1 have taken eev ra' bo't. es oft Vegetine, and am haopy to «av hns entire! cured tie. 11 ave recommeudod tt 0 Ve-etine to o'herg wi'h the me ir»n resuit-. It is a great cleanser and puriiW of the blood it is nl»a» mtto tane and I caa chee fully rerommend it.

JAMKS HOKSB 384 Athens St.

Rheumatism Is a

Disease of

the

Blood.

The blood, in this disease. found contain an excess of fibrin. Vegtjnue act" by converting the Mood from its llse'^ed condit'on to a hea thy circulation Vegetluo regulates hebweU *hich Is very iuiDortant In'hts comp'alnt On bottl of 'getine will give relief but to effee-. a permanent cur-, it mu ''e taken regu'srly. and may tskn severa1 ott'o*. espec ally in cas"8 of long standing. Veg..tine ss Id by all drugg sts. Try it, and your ver let ll be th' same a- that of housands before you, who say, never fonnd so much cli«-i as from the use of VYiget 00," which 1- comp isoM jxclusivcly of barks, roots and horns.

Vegetine,

Says a Boston physician, "has no oqual as a blood pnrifler. Hearing of lis many wonderful urus after all other rem dies had failed, I sited the Laboratory and con\lnccdmyseifof its genuine merit It Is prepared from barns, root-, and herbs, each ot which i^high iffoctive, and they are compounded iu such a manner as to produce astomshiug results."

Vegetine.

1 Nothing Equal to It.

SNUTN 3 LSM, Miss.. N V. 14,1877.

MR. H. A STKVENB I)5a Sir—1 hare been troubled with scrofula eanker, and liver CMnpltlii or ihrse years, th ng e^flr Hd inn any goo I until I commencd using the Vegettu'j. I am now getting a ongffrst we. ail I -ui I tidng the Veiret tie. Imu* dur ther» is uth ng equal to it for such eomplsints. an artily recommend

it oev.t

vb»dy Yo n-• ru y,

Mas ZZI8 X, I'AOKARD,

No. 10 LagraageSt..South Sicir., lass.

VEGETINE.

I*REPAttBU BY

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H. R. Stevens, Boston, Mast.

Vegetine is sold by all Druggists XJader State Managements

Ami in dally operation over 87 years.

$15,(MX)

$50,000 $10.00

$100

Pec. 16. 1877 .Ian. 14, Feb 15, 78.

Dee 2 1*77. J*n 28 Feb 3. '78

KENTUCKY

State Allotment!

Of $367,93.1 in PRIZES.

1 Prize of $60/09 1 Pr zeof 18,460 1 Prize of 10,000 5877 Other Prizes 22# 650

Total $800,010 Whol ckcts, 110, half tickets, $5 quarters S 1.61 eighth, 1.26. I Prize ot .V....-,.. $15,000 1 Prize of 8 000 1 Prize of 6,000 1891 otner Prize* 80,926

Total «67,9M Whole tickets. $1 60 whole tickets, 946 100 whole tickets $9u.

C'hartetcd fureduoat ona' institutions. Under charter ao postponment can occur. The value of every prizo paid In full in U. 8. Money.

Official *.ist of Drawn numbers sent to every purchaser of a ticket. Lint published in New York Herald, Son, and Courier Journal.

These allotments uniformly take place during the second and last weeks of each month throughout the year. Tickets for the first allotment ol every month are always sold at One Dollar each—Capital Prizo 916.000. For the last allotment tickets are always sold at Ten Dollars each—Halves, Quarters, and Eighths In proportion. Cap? iial prize $40/00.

Circulars containing full particulars fi ee:' Address.

SIMMONS & DICKINSON,

Manager's Office, It Third St.. Lon.aville, Ky.

Tolourists.

No portion of the continent of America presents so much grandeur, beauty and marvelous interest to the Tourist as the famous Rocky Mountain region of Eastern Colorado, in the vicinity of the beautitul City of Denver. The magnifi cence of the mountain scenery is equaled only by that of Switzerland, and many Tourists from abroad have pronounced Colorado scenery superior to even that of the Alps. The popular resorts in the mountains, famed alike for their grand surroundings and their magical waters, are daily becoming recognized as the MOST DELIGHTFUL in America for either health or recreation. Hundreds of people, tired of the resorts of the East, are going to spend the summer In the grand old Rocky Mountains amid its charming parks, majestic snow-clad peaks, grand canons, clear sky and magic atmosphere. The popular

KANSAS PACIFIC RAIL

WAY, with its steel rail and automatic air brakes, is the favorite Tourist Route and the only line running Pullman cars from

Kansas City to Denver. Low round trip rates from all eastern cities. Descriptive touri -ts circulars, maps and giiidea sent free, upon application to the general passenger agent Kansas Pacific

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